PERSPECTIVE Volume 44, Number 19 October 9, 2020 By Ron Throupe Ph.D., CRE, MAI, FRICS; Eryn Throupe; and Jennifer (Fang) Dong, MBA Photo: CloudOnePhoto/Shutterstock.com Introduction After fielding comments and inquiries on special purpose property definitions and refinements based on the original article “What’s so Special About Special Purpose Property?”1 It is clear that further explanation […]

FEATURE Volume 44, Number 18 September 25, 2020 By Olga Kaganova, Ph.D. Photo: Josemaria Toscano/Shutterstock.com Why Now? The financial pressure cities are experiencing due to COVID-19 only amplifies the pre-existing historical underinvestment in municipal infrastructure and adds urgency to cities’ search for new sources of funding. Indeed, underinvestment in building new municipal infrastructure and replacing […]

PERSPECTIVE COLUMN Volume 44, Number 17 September 22, 2020 By Mario Lefebvre, CRE Photo: MJgraphics/Shutterstock.com The two issues brought forward by this column may not sound much like urgent real estate issues, but they are and if the industry does not mind them, it may miss out on important implications. The two issues are the […]

Volume 44, Number 16 July 29, 2020 By Deborah Cloutier, CRE Photo: Mameraman/Shutterstock.com ESG was listed as the #10 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) is no longer an emerging trend, but a critical component of real estate investment integrated […]

Volume 44, Number 15 July 27, 2020 By Cassandra Francis, CRE Photo: metamorworks/Shutterstock.com Infrastructure was listed as the #9 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. Infrastructure, the vital basic physical and social systems that support the subsistence and growth of global economies and populations, once […]

Volume 44, Number 14 July 22, 2020 By Thomas Shircliff, CRE, and Noah D. Shlaes, CRE Photo: Josep Suria/Shutterstock.com Technology & Workflow was listed as the #8 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. In a post-COVID world (and a pre-future pandemic world) the combination of […]

Volume 44, Number 13 July 17, 2020 By Tomáš Ctibor, CRE, FRICS, and Thomas Wootten, CRE, FRICS Photo: Piyapong Wongkam/Shutterstock.com Space Utilization was listed as the #7 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. Many new ideas, solutions, and procedures have been born through the COVID-19 […]

Volume 44, Number 12 July 17, 2020 By Scott R. Muldavin, CRE Photo: Ander5/Shutterstock.com Flow of People was listed as the #6 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. The flow of people between and within countries has always been a critical driver of real estate […]

Volume 44, Number 11 July 15, 2020 By George T. Vallone, CRE Photo: iQoncept/Shutterstock.com Affordable Housing was listed as the #5 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. In this era of political divisiveness, there are two things that most can agree on: 1) there is […]

Volume 44, Number 10 July 10, 2020 By K.C. Conway, CRE, MAI, CCIM, and Thomas Curtin, CRE Photo: Doucefleur/Shutterstock.com Public & Private Indebtedness was listed as the #4 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States was on track […]